‘There is a necklace of jewels that is strung around London – otherwise known as the M25.’
BRAVO! I wrote that sentence many years ago and can proudly say that I have not written a better one since.
That motorway, which causes such mayhem and misery to so many, is surrounded by a wealth of historical and architectural diversions.
At Egham in Surrey, a profusion of pinnacled and pepperpotted spires and towers rears into the sky, along with domes, fanciful chimneys and finials, soaring ebulliently from the trees, giving the M25 a quite stupendous skyline. It is Royal Holloway College, a gargantuan château of Portland stone and ‘flaming
